Acculturation: The Study of Culture Contact (Classic Reprint)

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The primary purpose of this book is to attempt to define and orient the study of culture contact by describing some of the work that has been done in analyzing the results of contact between peoples, and to suggest further research into the problems that arise from in vestigations of this kind. If it is concerned only with primitive peoples, this is not because it is held that the forces at work among primitive folk are different from those operative in contacts between literate peoples; but merely that the writer, as an anthropologist, has felt it to be the part of wisdom to discuss those data which fall in the field of his competence. Hence thdugh we will here be primarily concerned with problems of anthropological research, it is none the less hoped that what is said will be of use to workers in other social sciences, especially to historians, sociologists and psychologists.

I am grateful to the Social Scienee Research Council for having made possible a period of reﬂection and reading on the problems discussed here that I needed to point the concepts that had been forming in my mind during the past years while working on Negro research - essentially an acculturation problem; and to my colleagues on the Council's sub-committee on Acculturation, Dr. Ralph Linton and Dr. Robert Redfield, for the many stimulating discussions that helped further to clarify these problems; similarly, it is a pleasure to express my gratitude to Dr. Donald Young, who participated in many of these discussions. I am also indebted to Dr. George Herzog for bibliographic suggestions in the fields of music and linguistics.

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